About Dr. Yusheng (Christopher) Liu

 

Academic Credentials

Ph.D., Nanjing Institute of Geology & PaleontologyOpens in new window , Chinese Academy of SciencesOpens in new window , 1992, Department of Paleobotany, Paleobotany of Seed Plants

M.Sc., Nanjing Institute of Geology & PaleontologyOpens in new window , Chinese Academy of SciencesOpens in new window , 1989, Department of Paleobotany, Paleobotany and Paleoclimatology

B.Sc., Sichuan UniversityOpens in new window , 1986, Department of Biology, Botany

 

Grants & Awards

Grant History (all PI, unless otherwise stated)

2018

  • $463,698 - U.S. National Institutes of Health - Biomedical/Biobehavioral Research Administration Development (BRAD) Program: California State University Fullerton Research Gateway Project Opens in new window  (awarded; 2013-2017 with no-cost extension) PI transfered
  • $11,592,050.00   -   U.S. National Science Foundation:   Collaborative Research: The Southern California Alliance for STEM Transfer Success/An Extended Network (SoCASTS)   (Co-PI, pending, 09/2018 - 08/2023)
  • $2,982,960.00 -   Division of Undergraduate Education, U.S. National Science Foundation:   Resource Hub: An Undergraduate STEM Education at HSIs: Framework for the 21st Century (USE-HSI21)   (pending, 02/2019 - 01/2024)

2017

  • $90,784.00 - Division of Undergraduate Education, U.S. National Science Foundation: HSI Conference: Dissecting the STEM Education Ecosystem in HSI: Regional Insights from Southern California ( awarded - for further information, please click the two links: NSF official press release and Project Summary)

2013

  • $10,000.00 - ETSU Research Development Committee (RDC) Major Research Grants :  Environmental change at Khoton Lake in Mongolia in the past 7000 years: evidence from diatoms in peat bogs    (funded, 06/2013 - 07/2014)

2012

  • $1,600.00 - ETSU Research Development Committee Small Research Grants: Miocene climate change in Taiwan: evidence from plant fossils

2010

  • $1000.00. - Travel grant, Office of Research and Sponsor Program, East Tennessee State University - Traveled to the W. Szafer Institute of Botany in Krakow, Poland in July 2010.

2008

  • $500.00 - Travel grant, Office of Research and Sponsor Program, East Tennessee State University - Traveled to the Indian Academy of Science (New Delhi) and Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany (Lucknow), India in Nov. 2008.
  • $9000.00 - Research Development Committee Major Research Grants, Office of Research and Sponsor Program, East Tennessee State University - Chemical Studies of Biomarkers in the Fossil Plants from the Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee.

2007

  • $421,657.00 - NSF CAREER Program - CAREER: Exploring the Neogene Plant Record of Global Vegetational and Climatic Changesin eastern North America – Research and Education Program ( June 2008 to May 2014)
  • $15,000.00 - National Geographic Society, Washington D.C. - Palecoecology of the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Flora from Gray,Tennessee, southeastern North America
  • $9,000.00 - Research Development Committee Major Research Grants, Office of Research and Sponsor Program, East Tennessee State University - Systematics of fossil seed plants from a unique late Tertiary flora in northeast Tennessee and its biogeographic significance
  • $2,000.00 - Network Research Grants, Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior - Genetic and morphological diversity in Carolina hemlock populations
  • $1,200.00 - Research Development Committee Small Grants, Office of Research and Sponsor Program, East Tennessee State University - Comparisons of the 7-4.5 million years old fossil fruits/seeds from the Gray Fossil Site, northeast Tennessee with the modern fruits/seeds housed at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum

2005

  • $3,000.00 - University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Personnel Development Committee Grants - Palynological investigation of the Late Miocene flora from Gray, Tennessee

2004

  • $74,300.00 - NSF DUE CCLI-Adaptation and Implementation - SEM in the Classroom: Creating a Student-Centered SEM Stereo Biological Imaging Resource (SSBIR) for Teaching and Research . (Co-PI)
  • $3,620.00 - University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Personnel Development Committee Grants - Arctic Plant Fossils and their Paleoclimatic and Paleobio-geographic Significances

2003

  • $477.00 - University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point IT minigrants - Database Management on Fossil Plant Collection
  • $1,700.00 - University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Personnel DevelopmentCommittee Grants - Systematic anatomy of Cycas leaves
  • $1,500.00 - Undergraduate Education Initiative Grants, College of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point - Request of plant fossil collection tools and lab chemicals

 

Awards/Honors

May 2017: Alexander von Humboldt Visiting Fellowship, Germany

August 2008: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany

June - August 2007: Mercer Research Fellowship, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, U.S.A.

June - August 2005: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany

1998 -2001: Postdoc Research Fellowship, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

1997 - 1998: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany

1995 - 1996: JSPS (Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japan

1994 - 1995: ÖAD (Austrian Foreign Exchange Service) Opens in new window Research Fellowship, Austria

11/1990: First Award for the Best Paper in the 1stNational Congress on Modern Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy of Graduate Students, China

10/1989: President Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 

Publications

Last updated:  Jan. 20, 2019  - Peer-Reviewed Papers (* - indicate student author)

Most PDFs can be downloaded from my ResearchGate or Academia Opens in new window websites.

Under Review

Liu, Y. and C. Quan. Neogene Oak Diversity of southeastern United States: Pollen Evidence from the Gray Fossil Site. Grana

Li, Q., T. Su, Y. Liu, and C. Quan. Oligocene plant ecological strategies in low-latitude Asia unveiled by leaf economics. Papers in Palaeontology

 

2019:

78. Li, Q. G. Shi, Y. Liu, Q. Fu, J. Jin, and C. Quan. The early history of Annonaceae (Magnoliales) in Southeast Asia suggests floristic exchange between India and Pan-Indochina by the late OligoceneOpens in new window . Papers in Palaeontology (in press)

2018:

77.  Li, Q.,  Y. Liu , J. Jin, and C. Quan. Late Oligocene  Fissistigma  (Annonaceae) leaves from Guangxi, low-latitude China and its paleoecological implications.  Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology Opens in new window  259: 39-47.

76.  Worobiec, G., E. Worobiec, and  Y. Liu . Fungal remains from late Neogene deposits at the Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee USA. Mycosphere 9(5): 1014-1024.

  2017:

75. Yehnjong, P.S., M.S. Zavada, Y. Liu (Chris Liu). Characterization and ecological significance of a seed bank from the Upper Pennsylvanian Wise Formation, southwest VirginiaPDF File . Acta Palaeobotanica 57(2): 165-175.

74. Utescher, T., A. Dreist, A.-J. Henrot, H. Hickler, Y. Liu, V. Mosbrugger, F.T. Portmann and U. Salzmann. Continental climate gradients in North America and Western Eurasia before and after the closure of the Central American Seaway. Earth and Plaentary Science Letters  472: 120-130.

73. Chen, Y.S., A.S. Mesguer, M. Godefroid, Z.Zhou, J.W. Zhang, T. Deng, J.H. Kim, Z.L. Nie, Y. Liu and H. Sun. Out-of-India dispersal of Paliurus (Rhamnaceae) indicated by combined molecular phylogenetic and fossil evidenceOpens in new window . Taxon 66(1): 78-90.

72. Wu, J.Y, Y. Liu, S.T. Ding, J. Li and P.C. An. Late Pliocene Smilax (Smilacaceae) leaves from Southwest China: phytogeographical and paleoecological implicationsPDF File Opens in new window . Reveiw of Palaeobotany and Palynology 241: 26-38.

71. Liu, Y. and C. Quan. Late Cenozoic climates of low-latitude East Asia: A paleobotanical example from the Baise Basin of Guangxi, southern ChinaOpens in new window . Palaeoworld   26: 572-580.

2016:

70. Miao, Y., X. Fang, Y. Liu, X. Yan, S. Li, and W. Xia. Late Cenozoic pollen concentration in the western Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, and its significance for paleoclimate and tectonics. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 231: 14-22 (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.04.008)

69. Ochoa, D.*, M. Zavada, Y. Liu, and J. Farlow. Floristic implications of two contemporaneous inland Late Neogene sites: Pipe Creek Sinkhole and the Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee (USA). Paleobiodiversity and Paleoenviornments 10.1007/s12549-016-0233-4

68. Quan, C., Y. Liu, and J. Jin. Unveiling the first plant lagerstätte with exceptional mummies from the Oligocene of low-latitude Asia. Science China – Earth Sciences 59(3): 445-448.

2015:

67. Huang, Y., W. Chen, F.M.B. Jacques, Y. Liu, T. Utescher, T. Su, D.K. Ferguson and Z. Zhou. Late Pliocene temperatures and their spatial variation at the southeastern border of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 111: 44-53.

66. Huang, Y., F.M.B. Frederic, Y. Liu, T. Su, D.K. Ferguson, Y. Xing, and Z. Zhou. Rubus (Rosaceae) diversity in the late Pliocene of Yunnan, southwestern China. Geobios 48: 439-448.

65. Huang, Y., Y. Liu, J. Wen, and C. Quan. Late Neogene seeds of Staphylea (Staphyleaceae) from eastern USA, and their biogeographical implications. Plant Systematics and Evolution 301(9): 2203-2218 (DOI 10.1007/s00606-015-1224-z)

64. Su, T., J.M. Adams, T. Wappler, Y. Huang, F.M.B. Jacques, Y. Liu, and Z. Zhou. Resilience of plant-insect interactions in an oak lineage through Quaternary climate change. Paleobiology 41(1): 174-196.

63. Wu, J., Z. Zhao, Q. Li, Y. Liu, S. Xie, S. Ding and B. Sun. A new species of Rhodoleia (Hamamelidaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of west Yunnan, China and comments on phytogeography and insect herbivory. Acta Geologica Sinica 89(5): 1440-1452.

2014:

62. Huang, Y., Y. Liu, and M. Zavada. New fossil fruits of Carya (Juglandaceae) from the latest Miocene to earliest Pliocene in Tennessee, eastern United States. Journal of Systematics and Evolution (DOI: 10.1111/jse.12085) 52(4): 508-520.

61. Liu, Z., K. Zhang, Y. Sun, W. Liu, Y. Liu, and C. Quan. Cenozoic environmental changes in the northern Qaidam Basin inferred from n-alkane records. Acta Geological Sinica-English Edition 88: 1547-1555.

60. Quan, C., Y. Liu, H. Tang, and T. Utescher. Miocene shift of European atmospheric circulation from trade wind to westerlies. Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) (DOI: 10.1038/srep05660)

59. Quan, C. Z. Liu, T. Utescher, J. Jin, J. Shu, Y. Li and Y. Liu. Revisiting the Paleogene climate pattern of East Asia: A synthetic review. Earth-Science Reviews 139: 213-230.

58. Su, K.*, C. Quan, and Y. Liu. New species of Cycas from the Eocene of Fushun, NE China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 204: 43-49.

57. Utescher, T., A.A. Bruch, B. Erdei, D. Ivanov, F.M.B. Jacques, A.K. Kern, Y. Liu, V. Mosbrugger, R.A. Spicer, and L. Francois. The Coexistence Approach – theoretical background and practical considerations of using plant fossils for climate quantification. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 410: 58-73.

2013:

  1. Quan, C., S. Han, T. Utescher, C. Zhang, and Y. Liu. Aridity index for paleoclimate quantification: justification, implications, and a Miocene case study in China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386: 86-95.
  2. Worobiec, E., Y. Liu, and M.S. Zavada. Paleoenvironment of the late Neogene lacustrine sediments at the Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee, USA. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae  83(1): 51-63.
  3. Su, T., R.A. Spicer, Y. Liu, et al. Regional constraints on leaf physiognomy and precipitation regression models: a case study from China. Bulletin of Geology (88(3): 595-608PDF File ).
  4. Huang, Y., Y. Liu, F.M.B. Jacques, T. Su, Y. Xing, and Z. Zhou. First discovery of Cucubalus (Caryophyllaceae) fossil, and its biogeographical and ecological implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. (190: 41-47PDF File )
  5. Xing, Y., J. Hu, F. Jacques, L. Wang, T. Su, Y.S. Liu, and Z. Zhou. A new Neogene Quercus species from the late Miocene of southwest China and its evolutionary significance. Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology . (193: 99-109PDF File )

2012:

  1. Quan, C., Y. Liu, and T. Utescher. Eocene monsoon prevalence over China: a paleobotanical perspective. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . (365/366: 302-311PDF File )
  2. Xing, Y., T. Utescher, F.M. Jacques, T. Su, Y. Liu, Y. Huang, and Z. Zhou. Palaeoclimatic estimation reveals weak precipitation seasonality in southwestern China during the late Miocene: evidence from plant macrofossils. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . (358-360: 19-26PDF File )
  3. He, W.*, B. Sun, Y. Liu. Fokienia shenxianensis sp. nov. (Cupressaceae) from the Late Miocene of eastern China and its paleoecological implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . (176-177: 24-34PDF File )
  4. Ochoa, D.*, M. Whitelaw, Y. Liu, and M.S. Zavada. Palynology of Neogene sediments at the Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee, USA: floristic implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . (184: 36-48PDF File )
  5. Huang, Y*., F. Jacques, Y. Liu, Y. Xing, and Z. Zhou. New fossil seeds of Sambucus (Adoxaceae) from the Late Pliocene of SW China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . (171: 152-163PDF File )
  6. Quan, C., Y. Liu, and T. Utescher. Paleogene seasonal variations and climate evolution in northeast China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . (313/314: 150-161PDF File )
  7. Zhou, Z., C. Quan, and Y. Liu. Reproductive and vegetative organs of Ginkgo from the Paleocene of Almont, North Dakota. International Journal of Plant Sciences . (173(1): 67-80PDF File )

2011:

  1. Quan, C., Y. Liu, and T. Utescher. Paleogene evolution of precipitation in northeast China supporting the mid Eocene intensification of the East Asian monsoon. Palaios . (26: 743-753PDF File )
  2. Su, T.*, F.M.B Jacques, Y. Liu, J. Xiang, Y. Xing*, Y. Huang*, and Z. Zhou. A new Drynaria (Polypodiaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of Southwest China. Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology . (164: 132-142PDF File )
  3. Jacques, F.M.B., Y. Liu , E. Martinetto, and Z. Zhou. Revision of selected fossil endocarp species in the Menispermaceae using a morphometric approach. Geodiversitas . (33(1): 177-197PDF File )
  4. Liu, Y., T. Utescher, Z. Zhou and B. Sun. The evolution of Miocene climates in northern China: preliminary results of quantitative reconstructions from plant fossil records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (NECLIME [Neogene Climate Evolution in Eurasia] special volume). (304: 308-317PDF File )
  5. Jacques, F.M.B., S. Guo, T. Su*, Y. Xing*, J. Huang*, Y. Liu , and Z. Zhou. Quantitative reconstruction of the late Miocene monsoon climates of southwest China: a case study of the Lincang flora from Yunnan Province. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (NECLIME [Neogene Climate Evolution in Eurasia] special volume). (304: 318-327PDF File )
  6. Sun, B., J. Wu, Y. Liu, S. Ding, X. Li, S. Xie, D. Yan, and Z. Lin. Reconstructing Neogene vegetation and climates to infer tectonic uplift in western Yunnan, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (NECLIME [Neogene Climate Evolution in Eurasia] special volume). (304: 328-336PDF File )

2010:

  1. Liu, Y. and F.M.B. Jacques. Sinomenium macrocarpus sp. nov. (Menispermaceae) from the Miocene-Pliocene transition of Gray, northeast Tennessee, USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . (159: 112-122PDF File )
  2. Gong, F.*, I. Karsai, Y. Liu. Vitis seeds (Vitaceae) from the late Neogene Gray Fossil Site, northeastern Tennessee, U.S.A. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . (162: 71-83)PDF File
  3. Stults, D.Z.*, B.J. Axsmith, and Y. Liu. Evidence of white pine (Pinus subgenus Strobus) dominance from the Pliocene northern Gulf of Mexico coastal plain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . (287: 95-100PDF File )
  4. Xing, Y.*, Y. Liu, T. Su, and Z. Zhou. Application of X-ray in the study of fossil cones. Acta Palaentologica Sinica . 49: 133-137.
  5. Xing, Y.*, Y. Liu , T. Su*, F.M.B. Jacques, and Z. Zhou. Pinus prekesiya sp. nov. (subsection Pinus, Pinaceae) from Late Miocene of Yunnan, southwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . (160: 1-9PDF File )
  6. Su, T.*, Y. Xing*, F.M.B. Jacques, W. Chen*, Y. Huang*, Y. Liu, and Z. Zhou. Quantitative reconstructions of Mean Annual Temperatures for Chinese Cenozoic Paleofloras based on the Chinese Leaf Margin Analysis Model. Geological Review 56 (5): 638-646.
  7. Su, T.*, Y. Xing*, Y. Liu , F.M.B. Jacques, W. Chen*, Y. Huang*, and Z. Zhou. Leaf Margin Analysis: A New Equation from the Humid to Mesic Forests in China. Palaios . (25: 234-238PDF File )

2009:

  1. Liu, Y. and J.F. Basinger. Metasequoia from the Eocene of Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic. Palaeontographica Abt. B. 282(1-3): 69-97.
  2. Liu, Y. , B.A.R. Mohr, and J.F. Basinger. Historical biogeography of the genus Chamaecyparis (Cupressaceae, Coniferales) based on its fossil record. Palaeodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (formerly Senckenbergiana lethaea ). (89: 203-209PDF File )
  3. Xia, K*., Su, T.*, Y. Liu , Xing, Y.*, and Zhou, Z. Quantitative climate reconstructions of a late Miocene Xiaolongtan megaflora from Yunnan, southwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (276:80-86PDF File )
  4. Wu, J.*, Sun, B., Y. Liu , Xie, S. and Lin, Z. A new species of Exbucklandia (Hamamelidaceae) from the Pliocene of China and its paleoclimatic significance. Review Palaeobotany and Palynology . (155: 32-41PDF File )

2008:

  1. Liu, Y. , R. Zetter, D.K. Ferguson, and C. Zou. Lagerstroemia (Lythraceae) pollen from the Miocene of eastern China and its paleobiogeographical significance. Grana . (47: 262-271PDF File )
  2. Jiang, Y.L. and Y. Liu. Determination of biomarker perylene preserve in the Late Neogene wood from northeastern Tennessee using fluorescence spectroscopy. Organic Geochemistry . (39: 1462-1465PDF File )
  3. Levy, F., J. Baker*, K. Chen, G. Cooke*, Y. Liu, E.S. Walker, and T. McDowell. Patterns of spread of hemlock woolly adelgid in Carolina hemlock populations. Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in the Eastern United States (Hartford, CT Feb. 12-14, 2008). USDA and Forest Service, (pp. 169-176PDF File ).

2007:

  1. Liu, Y. , R. Zetter, D.K. Ferguson, and B.A.R. Mohr. (2007). Evergreen and deciduous Quercus from the Miocene of Zhejiang, eastern China: the pollen record. (Review of Palaeobotany and PalynologyPDF File )

2005:

  1. Liu, Y.  (academic editor) (2005): An Illustrated Microscopic Identification of Chinese Materia Medica. Editor-in-Chief: Z. Zhao. International Society for Chinese Medicine (ISCM) Monography. Published by Chung Hwa Book Co. Hong Kong. 383 pages (in English and Chinese).

2004:

  1. Ji, Q., H.Q. Li, L.M. Bowe, Y. Liu, and D.W. Taylor. (2004): Early Cretaceous Archaefructus eoflora sp. nov. with bisexual flowers from Beipiao, western Liaoning, China. Acta Geological Sinica . (78(4): 883-896)

2003:

  1. Liu, Y. and Wittry, J. 2003. Field Trip Guide to the Mazon Creek Flora. 20th Mid-Continental Paleobotanical Colloquium, May 2-4, 2003, Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History. 14 pages. (non peer-reviewed)

2001:

  1. Liu, Y., Zetter, R., Mohr, B.A.R. and Ferguson, D.K. (2001): The flowers of an extinct legume from the Miocene of southern Germany. Palaeontographica Abteilung B, Palaeophytologie 256(4-6): 159-174.

2000:

  1. Liu, Y. and Basinger, J.F. (2000): Fossil Cathaya (Pinaceae) pollen grains from the Canadian High Arctic . International Journal of Plant Sciences . (161(5): 829-847PDF File )
  2. Sun, G., Zhang, S.L., Wang, X.F., Mei, S.W. and Y. Liu (2000): Subdivision of development stages of Early Angiosperms from NE China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 39(Supplement): 186-199.
  3. Tao, J.R., Zhou, Z.K., and Y. Liu (2000): The Evolution of the Late Cretaceous – Cenozoic Floras in China . Science Press, Beijing. 282 pages.

1998:

  1. Liu, Y., Wang, W.M. and Momohara, A. (1998): China's beech forest in the Pre-Quaternary. - Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität in Berlin - Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 1: 151-166.
  2. Liu, Y. Fossil fruits/seeds and angiospermous leaves from Ping Chau Island, Hong Kong. In: Lee, C.M. et al. (eds.), Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Hong Kong Vol. 2. Science Press, Beijing, pp. 66-87 (in English and Chinese)

1997:

  1. Ferguson, D.K., Y. Liu and Zetter, R. (1997): The paleoendemic plants of East Asia: evidence from the fossil record for changing distribution patterns. In: Jablonski, N.G. (ed.), The Changing Face of East Asia during the Tertiary and Quaternary. Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, pp. 359-371.
  2. Liu, Y., Zetter, R. and Ferguson, D.K. (1997): Fossil pollen grains of Cathaya (Pinacaeae) in the Miocene of eastern China. Mededelingen Rijks Geologische Dienst , No. 58, pp. 227-235. (Proceedings of the 4th European Palaeobotanical and Palynological Conference at Heerlen, the Netherlands, September 1994)

1996:

  1. Liu, Y. Foliar architecture of Betulaceae and a revision of Chinese betulaceous fossil leaves. Palaeontographica Abteilung B, Palaeophytologie 239: 23-57.
  2. Liu, Y., Guo, S.X. and Ferguson, D.K. (1996): A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China. Palaeontographica Abteilung B, Palaeophytologie 238: 141-179.
  3. Liu, Y., Momohara, A. and Mei, S.W. (1996): A revision on the Chinese megafossils of Fagus (Fagaceae). Journal of Japanese Botany 71(2): 168-177.

1995:

  1. Liu, Y. and Zheng, Y.H. (1995): Neogene Floras. In: Fossil Floras of China through the Geological Ages , Eds. Xingxue Li et al. (Guangzhou: Guangdong Science and Technology Press), 506-551 (in English and in Chinese).
  2. Liu, Y. and Leng, Q. (1995): The Miocene Shanwang Flora from Linqu, Shandong. In: International conference of diversification and evolution of terrestral plants in geological time, guide book: 10-14. Nanjing Institute of Geology & Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. (non peer-reviewed)
  3. Liu, Y., Zetter, R. and Ferguson, D.K. (1995): Discovery of Lagerstromeia (Lythraceae) pollen grains from the Miocene of East China and their biogeographical significance. Southern Connection Newsletter (7): 17-19. (published at the University of Tasmania). (non peer-reviewed)

1994:

  1. Liu, Y., Zetter, R. and Ferguson, D.K. (1994): A method for identifying fossil spores and pollen grains. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Newsletter 27(3): 13-16. (non peer-reviewed)

1993:

  1. Liu, Y. (1993): A palaeoclimatic analysis on the early Pleistocene flora of Changseling Formation, Baise Basin, Guangxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 32, 151-170.

1991:

  1. Liu, Y., Zhou, Z.Y. and Li, H.M. (1991): First discovery of Cycas fossil pinnae from the Eocene Guchengzi Formation northeast China. Chinese Science Bulletin (22), 1758-1759.
  2. Liu, Y. A solution to Darwin's "abominable mystery". Plants (4), 41. (non peer-reviewed)

1990:

  1. Liu, Y. Progress in International Palaeobotany in 1989. Advances in Earth Science (5), 87-89. (non peer-reviewed)
  2. Liu, Y. Cuticular studies in two Pleistocene species of Lauraceae in the Baise Basin, Guangxi. Acta Botanica Sinica 32, 805-809.

 

Abstracts - Conference Presentations (* - undergraduate/graduate student)

Ochoa-Lozano, D.*, Y. Liu, and M.S. Zavada. 2010. Floral composition and paleoecological implications of a Late Negene flora from the Gray Fossil Site, northeastern Tennessee: results from pollen analysis. Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2010.

Liu, Y. 2010. The evolution of Miocene climates in North China: preliminary results of quantitative reconstructions from plant fossil records. Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of America. July 31-August 4, Providence, Rhode Island.

Liu, Y. 2010. Contributions of Conifer Fossils to Plant Taxonomy, Evolution and Paleobiogeography: Examples of Eocene Remains of Cupressaceae from the Arctic. 8th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 6-10, 2010.

Liu, Y. 2010. A Late Neogene carpoflora from southeastern North America. 8th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 6-10, 2010.

Liu, Y. 2010. Exotic plants at the Gray site: why did they die out at Gray? 2010 Gray Fossil Site Symposium, Gray Fossil Site, TN. April 10, 2010.

Ochoa-Lozano, D.* and Y. Liu. 2010. In search of greener side of the Gray site: reconstructing plants. 2010 Gray Fossil Site Symposium, Gray Fossil Site, TN. April 10, 2010.

Liu, Y. and M. Zavada. 2009. Paleoclimatic reconstruction of the late Neogene flora from Gray, Tennessee. Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of America. July 25-29, 2009. Snowbird, Utah.

Gong, F.*, I. Karsai, and Y. Liu. 2009. Grape seeds (Vitis) from the late Neogene Gray Fossil Site, northeast Tennessee. Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of America . July 25-29, 2009. Snowbird, Utah.

Wallace, A.E.* and Y. Liu. 2009. Applying Paleontological Education of the Gray Fossil Site to Tennessee Science Education Standards. Abstracts for the Ninth North American Paleontological Covention (NAPC 2009). University of Cincinnati; June 21-26, 2009. pp. 208-209PDF File .

Liu, Y., R. Zetter, and D.K. Ferguson. 2007. Out-of-India dispersal hypothesis: evidence from crepe myrtle fossils (Lagerstroemia, Lythraceae). Abstracts of the 1st International Palaeobiogeography Symposium. 10-13 July 2007 Paris, France. Organized by the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) and Museum national d'Historire naturelle, Paris, CNRS. p.67.

Liu, Y., T. Wright*, and S.M. Bassaly*. 2007. The occurrence of East Asian plants in the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene flora from Gray, northeastern Tennessee. Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of America. July 7-11, 2007. Chicago, ILOpens in new window .

Liu, Y., R. Zetter, D.K. Ferguson, and B.A.R. Mohr. 2006. Evergreen and deciduous Quercus from the Miocene of Zhejiang, eastern China: the pollen record. American Journal of Botany (Abstract). Chico, California State University. July 28-August 2, 2006. Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of American.

Liu, Y.S. 2006. Historical biogeography of Chamaecyparis (Cupressaceae). Abstract for the Second International Palaeontological Congress, June 17-21, 2006, Beijing, China.

Liu, Y. 2005. Leaves of Cephalotaxus from the Paleocene of Almont, North Dakota, U.S.A. American Journal of Botany (Abstract). Austin, Texas, August 13-17, 2005. (poster presentation?)

Liu, Y. and J.F. Basinger. 2005. Fagaceous fossils from the Eocene Buchanan Lake Formation, Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic. XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria Center, Austria, 17-23 July 2005. (oral presentation)

Ji, Qiang, Hongqi Li, L. Michelle Bowe, Liu, Y., and David. Winship Taylor. 2002. The earliest fossil herbaceous flowering plant from the Yixian Formation, Sihetun, Liaoning, northeastern China. American Journal of Botany (Abstract).

Martinetto, E., Momohara, A. and Liu, Y. 1997. A paleoclimatic analysis of the Pliocene floras of Italy based on the modern East Asian analogues. - Abstracts of the Second European Palaeontological Congress (Climates: Past, Present and Future), Vienna, Austria . p. 53.

Liu, Y., Zetter, R., Ferguson, D.K. and Mohr, B.A.R., (1996): Fossil flowers of leguminous affinity with tricolporate pollen in situ from the Sarmatian of Germany. - Abstracts of the Fifth Conference of the International Organization of Palaeobotany, June 30 - July 5, 1996, Santa Barbara, California, USA . p. 61.

Liu, Y. and Momohara, A., (1996): A revision on the Chinese megafossils of Fagus (Fagaceae). - Abstracts of the Fifth Conference of the International Organization of Palaeobotany, June 30 - July 5, 1996, Santa Barbara, California, USA. p. 61.

Ferguson, D.K., Liu, Y. and Zetter, R. (1996): The Palaeoendemic Plants of East Asia: Evidence from the Record for Changing Distribution Patterns. Proceedings 4th International Conference on The Evolution of the East Asian Environment at Hong Kong , January 1995, p.20.

Ferguson, D.K., Liu, Y. and Zetter, R. (1995): China's endemic genera from a palaeobotanical perspective. Abstracts of the International Conference of Diversification and Evolution of Terrestrial Plants in Geological Time, Nanjing, China , September 4-8, 1995, p.69-70.

Liu, Y., Ferguson, D.K. and Zetter, R. (1995): Biogeographical analysis of the genus Cathaya (Pinaceae). Abstracts of the International Conference of Diversification and Evolution of Terrestrial Plants in Geological Time, Nanjing, China , September 4-8, 1995, p.77-78.

Liu, Y. (1992c): First discovery of Cycas fossil pinnae in China with comments on phylogeny and historical phytogeography of Cycas. Abstracts of the XV International Botanical Congress at Yokohama, Japan , August 28-September 3, 1993, p.238.

Liu, Y. (1992b): Leaf architecture of Betulaceae. Abstract of the XV International Botanical Congress at Yokohama, Japan , August 28-September 3, 1993, p.238.

Liu, Y. (1992a): Fossil history of Chinese Betulaceae. Abstracts of the XV International Botanical Congress at Yokohama, Japan , August 28-September 3, 1993, p.238.

Liu, Y. (1987): Introduction to one of the botanical evolutionary theories: Neoteny. Abstract of the Second Congress of the Palaeobotanical Society of China, Nanjing , November 1987, p.20-21 (in Chinese).

Liu, Y. (1984): Brief survey of the flora in the Emei Mountain, Sichuan Province, southwest China. Abstracts of the First Congress of Youth Biologists, Department of Biology, Sichuan University , October 1984, p.14-17 (in Chinese).

 

Dissertations

Liu, Y. 1992a: First discovery of Cycas fossil pinnae in China with comments on phylogeny and historical phytogeography of Cycas. - Ph.D. Dissertation Part I , Department of Palaeobotany, Nanjing Institute of Geology & Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 133 pp., 39 pls. (in Chinese with English Abstract)

Liu, Y. 1992b: Leaf architecture of Betulaceae and fossil history of Chinese Betulaceae. - Ph.D. Dissertation Part II , Department of Palaeobotany, Nanjing Institute of Geology & Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 168 pp., 32 pls. (in English with Chinese Abstract)

Liu, Y. 1989: A Pleistocene megaflora from the Baise Basin, Guangxi Province, S. China. - M.Sc. Thesis , Department of Palaeobotany, Nanjing Institute of Geology & Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 150 pp., 25 pls. (in Chinese)

Liu, Y. 1986: On the taxonomy of Lindera (Lauraceae) from the Emei Mountain in Sichuan Province, S.W. China. - B.Sc. Thesis , Department of Biology, Sichuan University. (in Chinese)

 

Field Trip Experience

  • summers, 2010-2012: Fossil field trip to southwestern China (Study Abroad Program, 3-week each summer): Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna, Jurassic Lufeng Dinosaur Park, numerous Neogene plant sites in Yunnan Province, and modern tropical rain forest in southwestern China

  • summer, 2009: Lower Cretaceous Jehol biota, west Liaoning province; K/T boundary, Jiaying, Heilongjiang province; Middle-Upper EoceneFushun Coalmin, Liaoning province (all in northeast China)

  • 08/2006 - present: upper Neogene Gray Fossil Site, Gray, northeast Tennessee.

  • 10/2007: Paris clay pits, western Tennessee (famous Eocene plant fossils site)

  • 06/2006: Almont, North Dakota, USA: collections of Paleocene plants and field course.

  • 10/2002: Cedar City, Utah, USA: collections of Cretaceous plants.

  • 07/1999: Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic: collections of vascular plant fossils and botanical field study of Arctic living plants

  • 06/1998: Northern France: botanical field study trip.

  • 07~08/1997: Botanical field trip around Germany (Berlin-Rostock-Lübeck-Bremen-Köln-Bonn-Münich-Würzburg-Bayreuth-Leipzig-Berlin).

  • 10~11/1996: Ping Chau Island, Hong Kong: botanical field study trip and collections of fossil angiospermous fruits and seeds.

  • 06/1996: Sequoia (Redwood) Forest Park, California, U.S.A.: botanical field study trip.

  • 07~08/1995: Nagoya and Osaka regions, Honshu, Japan: botanical field study trip and collections of fossil nuts.

  • 10/1994: Limburg, the Netherlands: botanical field study trip.

  • 08/1994: Bohemia, Czech Republic: botanical field study trip and paleobotanical trip in Bohemia Basin.

  • 07/1994: Austrian Alps and Lower Austria: botanical field study trip.

  • 02/1994: Bucharest, Romania: botanical field study trip.

  • 07~08/1993: Botanical expedition around China with Austrian botanists/ paleobotanists.

  • 09/1991: Dalian, Liaoning, N.E. China: field excursion to temperate vegetation.

  • 08/1990: Zhangjiajian National Forest Park, Hunan, C. China: field excursion to subtropical vegetation.

  • 03~05/1988: Baise Basin, Guangxi, S.W. China: plant taxonomy field study trip and collections of plant fossils.

  • 10/1987: Nanjing, Jiangsu, E. China: field excursion to northern subtropical vegetation.

  • 06~07/1987: Fujian, S.E. China: excursion to southern subtropical and tropical vegetations and collections of plant fossils.

  • 01~05/1986: Mt. Emei, Sichuan, S.W. China: collections of Lindera (Lauraceae).

  • 07~08/1985: Mt. Hengduan, Sichuan, S.W. China: plant systematics and ecology field study trip.

  • 06~07/1983: Mt. Emei, Sichuan, S.W. China: plant systematics field study trip.